31 MAY 1930

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The chief event of the debate was admittedly the speech

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of Sir Oswald Mosley. It was delivered with perfect clearness and with faultless taste—a new development in Sir Oswald's career—and proved above all things his unremitting...

The effect of the debate is that the Government stock

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has , fallen a few points more. The Liberals are ready to co-operate with the Government—naturally- but it seems to us that the Unionists would serve the nation best in this...

News of the Week

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The Unemployment Debate T HE debate on unemployment in the House of Commons on Wednesday left the Government with a larger majority (twenty-nine) than they managed to keep at...

All thisove„must remark, was an assertion rather than an explanation.

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And we wonder what Mr. MacDonald's authority was for saying that there are between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000 unemployed in the United States. Then Mr. MacDonald gave a curiously "...

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The Prime Minister in His Constituency

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- On Monday the Prime Minister, on one of his rare visits to his constituency, said that the Government would refuse to accept any amendment to the Coal Bill which struck at the...

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India Serious news still comes from India, but the situation

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has never been quite so bad as the pessimists feared. The disobedience which Mr. Gandhi organized is already taking new forms, most of which are in them- selves a confession...

The Nottingham By-Election The result of the by-election in Central

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Nottingham was declared on Wednesday : Ms. T. J. O'Cormion, K.C. (U.) .. 14,946 Mr. A. E. Waterson (Lab.) .. 7,923 Captain R. C. Berkeley (L.) .. 4,648 Unionist majority .. •...

The greatest anxiety, of course, has been on the North

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West Frontier, where there is always much tinder only waiting for a spark. It is almost a miracle that the sparks and the tinder have generally been kept apart. One encouraging...

The Attempt on Lord Strickland On Friday, May 23rd, when

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Lord Strickland, the Prime Minister of Malta, was entering the Court of Appeal, an attempt was made on his life. Three shots with a revolver, all of which happily missed, were...

On Tuesday a White Paper was published explaining British policy

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in Palestine. This must not be confused with the general declaration of future policy in Palestine which is urgently needed in order to remove the uncer- tainties that were at...

Meanwhile the two principal bodies which preach revolution, the "

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Red Shirts " and the Youth League," continue to be active. According to the special corres- pondent of the Times the " Red Shirts" really call themselves the "Servants of God,"...

The Civil War in China The . news from the seat

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of war in China is hopelessly contradictory. The Nanking Government has officially reported victories over the Northern troops on May 20th and 21st. It claims to have penetrated...

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Miss Amy Johnson Miss Amy. Johnson last Saturday successfully completed

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her flight from England to Australia in twenty days. We join heartily in the congratulations which have been showered upon her. . There is good reason for the suggestion that...

Empire Day Empire Day has firmly established itself. There was

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never more spontaneous enthusiasm than last Saturday, and this was to be valued the more because there was never a time—to judge from the many addresses and messages—when the...

The OffiCial Secrets Act The NeWspaper Proprietors' Association has sent

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to the Prinie - Minister the methOrandum for which he asked in reference to the use of the Official Secieta Act against three' journalists` who had announced . the forthcOming...

Empire Chambers of Commerce The twelfth Congress of the Federated

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Chambers . of Commerce of the British Empire was opened on Monday by the Prince of Wales. There is perhaps a greater oppor- tunity for the Congress than ever before. In addition...

The " Spectator " Scottish Number .

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We publish this week special articles dealing with Scottish affairs. It is thought that the English Press as a whole fails to give sufficient attention to those subjects which...

The purpose of the Act was undoubtedly to deal with

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naval and military secrets. Yet a few exceptionally zealous champions of freedom suggested that the wording should, be changed in order to prevent all possibility of an improper...

Prohibition The final figures of the " straw vote "

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organized by the Literary Digest on Prohibition in the United States were published on Friday, May 23rd. Out of a total of 4,806,464 votes those in favour of enforcement of the...

Bank Rate, 8 per cent., changed from 34 per cent.

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on May 1st, 1930. War Loan (5 per cent.) was on Wednesday 102 ; on Wednesday week, 102* ; a year ago, 1001; Funding Loan (4 per cent.) was on Wednesday 90i; on Wednesday week,...

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A Great Primate T HE Christian world has lost in Archbishop

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Davidson an administrator of quite exceptional sagacity, an ingeminator of peace in all his thoughts, words and acts, a man who held great place with humility, a wise and...

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Wanted a National Policy

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T ' glaring contrast between what everybody is saying in private about the state of politics and what the leaders of the Parties are saying and doing in public is as strange a...

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A Scotsman

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on Scottish Problems [COMMUNICATED] A FEW years ago a few young Scots began to traverse the generally accepted views of Scotland's position, of its relations with England, and...

The Week in Parliament S COTTISH business occupied the attention of

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the House of Commons during the latter part of last week, and on Thursday English members fled the building while the ever-genial Mr. Adamson discoursed to a few recumbent...

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The Church in India

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[Rev. W. H. G. Holmes, the author of this article, is a member of the Oxford Mission to Calcutta and has a long experience of Indian Church life. He is the author of The...

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What is Right with England

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2.—A Garden of Bright Eyes under the heading " The New England."] T DON'T pretend to understand young children, although -I- 'I do , like to see them about, and feel flattered...

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The Scottish Universities

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M ORE than the g enerality of mankind, the Scot has the reputation of bein g an educated animal. It i s , indeed, often said by those who do not wish to ho no ur him that he ow...

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Not Burns—Dunbar ! "

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THOUGH the actual date is doubtful, the tercentenary of William Dunbar's death is being observed this year. It would , be truer to say that it is not being observed--on anything...

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To Scotland by Air

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I T is delightful to go to Scotland ; it is delightful and exciting to go there by air ; and it is delightful, exciting and memorable to go there by air in the same aeroplane as...

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The Theatre

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Do We Want a National Theatre ? Ours aged friend, the British National Theatre*, is visibly " in the air " again. It has been up there, floating in a tantalizing manner, like...

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Art

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THE one hundred and fourth exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy, opened to the public last month, gives Edinburgh her annual opportunity of admiring the productions of...

Correspondence

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PROGRESS OF THE GANDHI MOVEMENT. [To the Editor of the SPECFATOR.1 • SIR,-MuCh is happening in India from day- to day, and the hot' weather does - not diminish the intensity...

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The Moth

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WHAT of the moth which falls Through the oil flame at night, A living animal thing, With dew damp on his wings On the dust there ? He flutters hesitantly, Through the...

A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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SIB, —With the meeting of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland this month and the attendant receptions and levees of the Lord High Commissioner at Holyrood Palace,...

A Hundred Years Ago

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THE " SPECTATOR," MAY 29-ra, 1830. FACING THE ENEMY. An anecdote is current, that the King, still alive, occasionally, to what used. to interest him before his illness,...

• • Capital Punishment Essay Competition

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OWING to the large number of entries for this competition the labour involved in judging them has been considerable. The task is, however, nearing completion. Competitors will...

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Que d' Eseossois, de rats, de poux, Ceux qui voyagent

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jusqu' au bout Du monde , en rencontrent partout. never PERHAPS there was such a wandering stock as the Scottish. Its wanderings are as inveterate as they are ubiqui- tous....

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BIRDS IN LONDON.

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Bird sanctuaries in and about London are small in scale compared with such National Parks, but their richness is an ever fresh marvel. No fewer than 08 species nested last year...

The Duke's vain plea has become poignant by reason of

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the advertised sale of the very eye of the Montrose estates. They are not only historic : their history is bound up in- extricably with their owner's name and interest. They are...

Country Life

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A SCOTTISH TRAGEDY. For some little while the Duke of Montrose, writing in the Countryman and elsewhere, has made himself the spokesman of a scheme that brings two extreme...

The C.P.R.E. pamphlet is compacted of suggestive ideas, the issue

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of hard thinking and long study ; and as such is inde- pendent of locality. It should be in the hands, and heads, of all municipal authorities. But I cannot forbear em-...

NATIONAL PARKS.

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It is just possible that a part of these estates may be bought as a memorial to Walter Scott and thereafter, if it may be, serve as a National Park. The neighbourhood of Glas-...

Of course, the C.P.R.E.' is not the C.P.R.B. : England

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does not include Scotland ; and yet in considering this question in its widest aspect there' are regions of Scotland which have qualities for a great national park not possessed...

FARMERS AND LANDOWNERS.

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It is, I think, worth notice, though by no means surprising, that the chief lamentation ' for the break-up of this great historic estate (which we may soon see repeated in the...

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[To' the Editor of' the SPECTATOR.]

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SIR,—Like Mr. Law, I have just returned from a tour in India. His was for four months, mine for six. May I be allowed to express the Opinion that he is wrong in saying; " The...

[To the Editor of the SPECTAron..] Sm,—In the many paragraphs

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written almost daily in our newspapers on the Indian situation, very few of the writers of these able articles mention a word about the Indian States, which do play, and will...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sra,—I wish to express to you my thanks for the attitude which you have recently taken up towards the Indian problem, and especially for the admirable article on Mr. , ....

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In his letter to

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you in your issue of 10th inst., Sir Patrick Fagan writes " I fear' that nothing which either I or writers far more capable than myself can urge is likely to amuse you and those...

FAGGING

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I be permitted to point out that, as fagging does not take place at Taunton School, of which he is headmaster, the letter of your...

Letters to the Editor

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INDIA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your very conciliatory leading article in your issue of May 10th you advocate "Dominion status at the earliest pos- sible...

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

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Sia, -Will you allow me to comment upon the latest of the very interesting articles by Mr. G. Henderson on the position of Germany to-day ? Your correspondent rightly...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Old Etonian's "

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article on fagging is puzzling to another (almost contemporaneous) Old Etonian. Having early in the . War been unexpectedly removed on account of air raids from a private school...

PROTECTION AND EMPLOYMENT

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 24th, Mr. Wm. Muir has repeated the argument used both by Adam Smith and Abraham Lincoln to prove the advantage of...

PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOE.] SIR,—Mr. Young says that Proportional Representation was not abolished in Northern Ireland in order to wipe out small minorities, but because "...

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AGRICULTURE AND WASTED TRANSPORT

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[To the Editor of the SeEcTAToa.] SIR,—In the article headed " Agriculture and Wasted Transport," which appeared in your issue of May 3rd last, Mr. E. R. B. Roberts says that "...

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—How is it, and

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why is it, that in discussing our huge and alarmingly increasing unemployment problem, almost everybody shuts his eyes to the chief cause of unemployment, not only in England,...

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. AND REUNION

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I am interested to notice that Mr. Pollard no longer continues to assert that there are only" minor and unimportant differences " between...

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ENGLISH AS AN INTERNATIONAL

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- • LANGUAGE [To the Editor of the Sexc-roroo.] Sin,—It is to be - hoPed that:mank will be in agreement with Mr. Harold CoX in his revival of the suggestion that a Com-...

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THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA, [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In the interests of historical accuracy it is necessary to challenge several statements made in your review...

THE CLOSE SEASON

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIRS I write to'teli_ you hovi yery glad I am to see, on my return from a short Stay in Italy; that Sir W. Beach Thoinas his raised the ,...

JACKDAWS

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[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—During the Easter vacation I was interested to find some jackdaws' nests . ; in what were—according to my know- ledge of their nesting...

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THE MODERN POINT OF VIEW [To the Editor of the

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SPECTATOR.] Sra,—I have read with interest " Twentieth Century's " letter in defence of the new pylons which have been put up under the Rural Electrification Scheme from...

As a playgoer always on the search for fine acting,

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may I say how pleased I was to read your dramatic critic's vindication of the art ? Younger critics are in danger of forgetting what great acting is, for the simple reason that...

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The Competition

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Tim Editor offers a prize of five guineas for the competitor whose selection of the five best brains in Great Britain most nearly accords with the majority verdict. The...

Some Books of the Week

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Mn. EDWARD F. Sphig . cE has followed two exacting and exhausting professions with profit and distinction—Law and Journalism—having been for many years both a well-known K.C....

A brief but illuminating survey of The Kirk in Scotland,

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1560-1929 (Hodder and Stoughtcin, 5s.) deserves attention, for it is the joint work of Mr. John Buchan, M.P. and Sir George Adam Smith, the Principal of Aberdeen University. Mr....

Letters to Young Sportsmen on hunting, angling and shooting, by

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Colonel MacKillop, Mr. Horace G. Hutchinson and Major Kenneth Dawson, the whole illustrated by Mr. Lionel Edwards and published by Country Life for 12s. 6d., is a trustworthy...

Lord Alness, the Scottish judge who, as Mr. Robert Munro,

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K.C., was once Liberal member for the Wick Burghs, Lord Advocate in Mr. Asquith's Ministry and Secretary for Scotland in Mr. Lloyd George's Coalition, has put together some of...

Mr. S. Elliott Napier's manner of writing assures us that

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he has thoroughly enjoyed collecting the material for Walks Abroad (Angus and Robertson, 7s. 6d.), in which he gives the " record of the experiences of two Australians in the...

In Sex Factor in Marriage (Noel Douglas, 3s. 6d.) Dr.

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Helena Wright has challenged the assumption implicit in nearly every book about sex written for adults that the actual physiological facts are too well known to need description...

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" Skimpole" Vindicated

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Leigh Runt: By Edthund Blunden: (Cobden-Stuidemon. 210 LEIGH Hum. has had long to wait for an adequate biography. But full justice has been done to him 'at last, in a manner...

The Antecedents of the Scot - The Social and Economic Development

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of Scotland ' before 1603. By I. F. Grant. (Oliver and Boyd. 21s.) MISS GRAI■IT does not explicitly state it, but one suspects that she would be inclined to admit that...

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Sir Walter's . Correspondence

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The Private Letter-Book of Sir Walter Scott. Selections from the Abbotsford Manuscripts. With a letter to the Reader from Hugh Walpole. Edited by Wilfred, Partington. (Hodder...

Abolishing Stuffiness in Schools

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The Nursery School. By Margaret McMillan. (Dent. 3e. ed.) BODILY fitness, sunshine, fresh air, plain food, play, rest, freedom—and again fresh air—which is the keynote of this...

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A Ghastly Trial

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The Trial of George Chapman (Severin Klosowski). Edited by Hargrave L. Adam. (William Hodge. 10s. 6d.) THE first proved victim of that Polish rascal known to legal history as...

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The Uses of Diversity

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Liberty in the Modern State. By Professor H. J. Laski. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) An Introduction to the Social Sciences. By C. Delisle Burns. (Allen and Unwin. 3s. 6d.) WERE...

A Scottish School Inspector

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Tales and Travels of a School Inspector. By John Wilson; M.A. (Glasgow : Jackson, Wylie and Co. 7s. 8d.) IN this chatty and breezy volume, Mr. Wilson looks back over his forty...

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Three Books on Flying

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The World's Aeroplanes and Airships. By G. Gibbard Jackson. (Sampson Low, Marston. 6s.) The Airway to See Europe. By Eleanor Elsner. (Marriott. 6s.) Ma. GOLDSTROM has not only...

Deportment for Girls

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The Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry. Introduction by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. (John _Hamilton. 10s. 6d.) The Book of the Chevalier de la Tour Landry was the manual of...

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a first novel. I. M. PARSONS. THE SMALL DARK MAN.

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By Maurice Walsh. (Chambers. 6d.)—It should be easy enough for the novel-weary to sneer at Mr. Walsh's " small dark man," to say that we are already- tired out by heroes made up...

Fiction

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"Mos et Mores" IT is Blake, I believe, who says somewhere that to generalize his the sign of a weak mind, and like most of Blake's utterances the remark carries an...

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There is something terrifying about any work of art by

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the hand or the pen of a madman, and Nicolas Gogol's Diary of a Madman (The Cresset Press, £3 3s.), recently translated by Prince Mirsky, has that`,` something ", to excess. It...

The Nonesuch Plutarch (five volumes, 30s. each) was weleemed with

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all the honours by us on the appearance .of the first volume: The , splendid typography, the spaciousness of the treatment, the originality of -.Mr. Poulton's portrait...

Durham. Cathedral, by the Rev. James Wall, is one of

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the " Famous Churches" series (Dent, cloth 2s. 6d. or leather 4s. 6d.). It is written with special emphasis upon the personal element in the history of Durham, so that the...

" Certain lighthouses on the migration routes have been specially

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fitted with perching screens, which are alive with birds at certain seasons. ` To prevent the birds flying blindly into the liectinf glaSs with fatal results, it is proposed to...

General Knowledge Questions

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Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions 'submitted is awarded this week to M. R. Johnson, Brook- lands, Church Stretton, Salop, for the folloviing •...

The sub-title, " Conversations of Real Use," of the little

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book of French conversations, reprinted from the Daily Mail, under the title of Brush Up Your French (Dent, 2s. 6d.), is completely justified. Mr. Hartog, the French master at...

Human Nature, by Dan Griffiths, with a foreword by the

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Right Hon. Wedgwood_ Berin (the. C. W. Daniel Company, 2s. Ad.) is a rather crude attempt to supply a philosophy for the policy 'of social reform. It is neither more nor less...

The Tribute, which was issued on May 14th, the Anniver-

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sary of His Majesty's restoration to health, is a large, thick magazine containing some thirty short stories by well-known writers, including Compton Mackenzie, H. de Vere...

Herr Niemann's Life of Brahms has been followed by another,

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also frcan a. German, Richard Specht, translated by Eric Blom and published by Dent (21s.). Specht knew the Master during the last ten years of his life, through those peaceful...

The interest now taken in the possibility of reunion between

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the Anglican and the Orthodox Churches is too often accom- panied by an almost complete ignorance of the special practices and characteristics of Eastern Christianity ; and...

More Books of the Week

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(Continued from page 905.) • Professor Vladimirtsov's Life of Chingis-Khan (Routledge, 68.) is no " romanced biography " of the Mongol war-lord who shook the thrones of all the...

The University of Edinburgh Journal in its summer number (Edinburgh,

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Oliver and Boyd, ls.) reprints Sir Alfred Ewing's admirable memorial notice of Lord Balfour, Chancellor of the University for nearly forty years. It also pays a farewell tribute...

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Travel

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[We publish on this page articles and notes which may help our readers in making their plans for travel at home and abroad, They are written by correspondents who have visited...

Touring the Highlands

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NINETY per cent. of motorists who go to Scotland try to cover the whole of the country in two or three weeks, and come home tired and disappointed: They are tired through having...

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A Day's Salmon Fishing

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ONE salmon-fishing holiday will always remain in my memory. It was the spring of 1927. During the few days which I was able to snatch in Scotland I gulped down its joys in large...

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Finance—Public & Private Banking North of the Tweed lions even

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farther than those of the English joint stock banks. One institution—the Royal Bank of Scotland— celebrated its bicentenary • two years ago, while just recently the centenary...

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Financial Notes

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QUIET MARKETS. ALTHOUGH high-class investment stocks'_ remain for the most part quite steady, it is very noticeable that, in spite of the continued cheapness of money and losi...

FORESTAL AS A HOLDING COMPANY.

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At last week's meeting of shareholders of the Forestal - Larid, Timber and Railways Company; -the Chairman, Baron Emile' (Continued on page 924.) - - - - Financial Notes ....

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PHOENIX RESULTS. •

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The Report of the Phoenix Asaurance Company for -1929 is an excellent one and the Accounts show a strong position. In the Fire Department net premiums amounted to £3,235,202,...

THE GRESHAM TRUST.

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When it is remembered that the Annual Report of the Gresham Trust, made up to April 30th, covers more than six months following the Wall Street crash last autumn and the Hatry...

OVERSEAS 'INVESTMENT.

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At the annual meeting of Hambro's Bank, Ltd., on Thursday, Sir Eric Hambro, the Chairman, who presided, corrected a fallacy which often appears in discussions regarding the...

TIN.

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At the recent meeting of the Anglo-Oriental Mining Cor- poration, the shareholders quickly agreed to the proposal of the Board to increasethe authorized capital of the...